The 25th Annual Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards were held on 1962, honoring the best in Indian cinema in 1961. [1]
Satyajit Ray - Teen Kanya
Uttam Kumar - Saptapadi
Suchitra Sen - Saptapadi
Ajoy Kar - Saptapadi
Hemanta Mukherjee - Swaralipi and Ravi Shankar - Sandhayarag
Gouri Prasanna Majumdar - Swaralipi
Bani Dutta - Swaralipi
Santosh Ghosh - Swayambara
Nitin Bose - Gunga Jumna
Dilip Kumar - Gunga Jumna
Vyjayantimala - Gunga Jumna
Nirupa Roy - Chhaya and Indrani Mukherjee - Usne Kaha Tha
Naushad - Gunga Jumna
Shakeel Badayuni - Gunga Jumna
V. Baba Saheb - Gunga Jumna
M. I. Dharmsay - Gunga Jumna
Wazahat Mirza - Gunga Jumna and Rajendra Krishan - Chhaya and S. Khalil - Usne Kaha Tha
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur
Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry
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